- It's time to do a walking tour of Dragon Muay Thai
here in Phuket, Thailand.
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- Don't stand on your toe too much.
- [Robyn] Okay.
- Not too much take on those.
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- Good afternoon, guys.
It is the 29th of October, 2019.
It's time to do a walking tour of Dragon Muay Thai
here in Phuket, Thailand.
It's about 15 minutes of your time,
so I'm not gonna waste it.
I'm gonna give you as much value in this video as possible,
so if you're looking at coming to Fitness Street
or Soi Taied in Phuket, Thailand on a fitness vacation,
this is one place to consider,
so I'll give you all the information you need
off of the top of my head,
so hopefully, I don't forget anything,
and then you can make your own decision
whether this place is for you or not,
so it is 2:30 in the afternoon, 2:25 Tuesday,
and everyone's doing privates, now, private lessons.
Real quick, so on Fitness Street, you'll find this place.
They've been here for awhile.
We trained here last year.
We did a couple private lessons.
- Okay, one, two, up.
One, two.
- Oh, sorry.
- I'm not my brother.
- I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the package.
(Brad laughs)
- [Brad] You didn't.
- Did our private lessons in separate videos.
I'll link it all up if you wanna see us
training with specific trainers here.
Kru Charn, another guy,
but I'll link those videos up separately.
So we're here this year, again, for a month.
Not training at this particular camp.
We're moving around a lot,
but we're doing private lessons here,
but just real quick, you'll find this place
on Fitness Street, or Soi Taied.
I'll throw the map up on the screen,
and it's a really awesome gym,
so I'll show you the bungalows, I'll give you the prices,
and I'll just show you what it looks like,
so we're gonna go for a walk.
Typically, they've got a morning and an afternoon class,
so they do, I think it's 8 until 10 in the morning,
group Muy Thai session, and afternoon, 3:30 until 6:00,
four, five, I think 3:30 until 6:00,
two and a half hours in the afternoon,
and I believe it's 300 Baht per drop-in, right?
Or 500 Baht per day, so if you're not sure,
this is what I usually suggest to people.
If you're not sure in a place,
rather than putting down 33,000 Baht for a month,
or two months of training,
or three months of training, rather,
it's good to just come here, and just do a couple lessons,
and just feel it out for yourself,
so it's good to know that the drop-in rate
is 300 Baht per group class,
and that's worth thinking about, so anyway,
let's go for a walk.
I'll show you quickly, this is the external,
this is the ring.
This is one area of Dragon Muay Thai.
Really, really cool.
They've got all the bags around here,
and there's one ring there,
and there was a guy doing his private,
but I think he's finished.
I'll take you around through the front.
So I'll take you through the front reception,
and you can really just walk in off the street,
and you can book a session.
It's very easy.
You just roll up, pay your cash, and then do the session.
How are you doing?
I'll take you, and this is what it looks like.
In fact, before I go in, you might be wondering
because I get this question a lot, too.
What cafes, or what surrounds the training gym?
Is there anything, can I do my laundry?
Can I rent a scooter?
Where can I get coffee?
So I'll show you real quick.
This is the front reception to Dragon Muay Thai
through that door.
They have breakfast right next door.
They have a package on their website, I noticed,
where they offer breakfast if you pay as part of a package.
The breakfast is held right next door,
and I'll take you there in a second,
but if you're curious, there's the Acai Cafe
just across the road, right?
And they serve amazing acai bowls.
I was there back in 2017.
I was there last year.
Really, really nice acai bowls.
I will make a separate video, or maybe even cover that
in a vlog.
That's Acai Cafe just there.
If you wanna get coffee and whatnot,
there's a place to go right there called Siam Villas,
and if you need to rent a scooter,
you can rent scooters just there.
Scooter rental, to be honest with you,
you only really need it if you plan on
getting away from the street.
If you're planning on staying on Fitness Street,
then you don't really need a scooter,
but I've hired my scooter from there,
costing me 800 Baht just for the week.
You could get it cheaper, but 800 Baht for the week,
literally next door to Dragon Muay Thai,
and they've got Boss Cafe just there.
They've got a really awesome pad thai shop just there,
and there's a barber right next door,
so you can have your pad thai, get your hair cut,
hire a scooter, and laundry is right next to
the scooter hire place, which is about 50 Baht per kilogramme,
so convert that, if you're watching this from the U.S.,
pounds, and convert that to your local currency.
Fifty Baht per kilo, really, really amazing value.
Again, acai bowls, I think there's
another barber place there, coffee, accommodations.
I stayed there two years ago, and then coffee there,
as well, and there's plenty of other places
on this street, as well.
That's just literally within a stone's throw
of Dragon Muay Thai, and we'll take you around this way.
This is where they have breakfast.
This is the breakfast area, just here, all right?
So if you're getting breakfast as a package,
that's where you'll have breakfast, just in there.
I've never had breakfast in there before,
so I can't tell you if it's good or bad,
but to be honest with you,
it's probably gonna be pretty good,
but maybe you can be the judge and let me know
what the experience is like,
but I'll take you to the bungalows.
So if you decide to get the Dragon package,
and I've never actually stayed in these bungalows before,
so I'm not endorsing them.
I'm not even sponsored.
I should've said that in the beginning.
I'm not sponsored to make this video.
I'm just doing it because I get a lot of questions
about these places, but if you're looking at
doing a training and accommodation package
with Dragon Muay Thai, this is their accommodation.
That's what it looks like, unedited.
We'll go for a walk.
If you, actually, before we do,
if you hear the training right now,
that's Dragon Muay Thai's other floor
that they're training on.
It's straight through those palm trees just there.
So you can see that it's just a very, very short walk
to the bungalows, and I don't know.
I haven't been inside, but I think on their website
they've got photos of the bungalows, but on the outside,
they look quite nice.
You see some guy's drying his wraps, and his shorts,
and his gloves.
It's really important to dry out your stuff
because you don't wanna get a staph infection,
so you see these guys do the same thing.
You have a little drying rack outside,
and you'll be using that drying rack
after each of your training sessions
to dry out your wraps and all of that stuff,
but this is a nice little well-kept area.
At a first glimpse, without going into any of the bungalows,
it looks very, very nice.
It looks well-kept.
I mean, look at this.
They even have a hedge garden.
That's more fancy than, I don't need that, personally,
but that's pretty good.
They look after their gardens around here,
so it gives you an idea of, perhaps, the quality.
Actually, hold on one second.
I don't think there's anyone staying.
Hopefully not.
All right, that's the room.
That would be really awkward if someone was staying in there
and they just walked out of the bathroom,
but anyway, just rewind the video, and take a snapshot.
It looks quite clean in there.
So anyway, I'll take you over to the other side.
Just follow me along, I know it's eight minutes,
but you're getting the real deal here.
This will be probably the path that you take
to do your morning classes, and afternoon classes.
More bungalows here.
Walk around here.
Here's the training floor, just here.
So we're gonna walk through here,
so there's actually a girl training at the moment.
She's doing a private session, and she's a solo,
she's a solo female traveller.
Hey.
That's Kru Charn.
He's a guy I trained with last year, and two weeks ago.
She's a solo female traveller, and she's training
at Dragon Muay Thai at the moment, actually,
so she's allowed me to put a couple of clips
of her training in, so if you're watching this
as a solo female traveller, rest easy
because there are other solo female travellers.
How are you?
Very hot.
- [Trainer] Yeah, I'm out of breath.
- Very, very hot.
- [Trainer] Very hot.
- [Brad] How are you feeling?
- Tired.
- [Brad] Yeah?
- Yeah.
- [Brad] Yeah?
Feel good?
- Very good.
- [Brad] Yeah?
You drink lots of water?
- Every day, really good.
- [Brad] Yeah?
Me too.
- I've got very good work mates.
- [Brad] Me too.
- Good trainers.
- [Brad] Yes, good trainer.
- Yeah.
- Yes.
He's obviously one of the trainers, and he's training
the girl who's travelling on her own,
so yeah, this is what it looks like.
I'll walk you through here.
So to give you an idea of what you're getting yourself into
if you decide to come here, it's pretty rad, guys.
I love this place.
It's not that crowded.
It's raw.
It's authentic.
There's a nice breeze that passes through here
when you're doing your training session.
You're surrounded by trees.
It doesn't feel like a factory.
You're getting your real deal here.
I really love it, and I'll give you an idea
of just how much water you drink out here
because it's so hot.
I mean, if that's any indication of how much water
you drink in this Thai heat, yeah,
you just drink so much.
You make sure you keep your hydration levels up.
So this is the girl that is,
sorry if you can't hear me properly,
but this is the girl that is solo travelling.
I'll show you.
She's allowed me to clip her in, so I've had a chat to her.
So guys, as you can see, everyone comes out here,
pro fighters, to people just starting a fitness journey,
to solo female travellers.
I would love to bring her in.
I've actually had a chat to a couple solo female travellers.
They're like, "I don't feel endangered."
"I don't feel unsafe at all."
It's a perfectly safe area.
You meet lots of people.
It's very, very social.
It's a big community here.
There's plenty of places around on Fitness Street.
Go and check out the other videos
if you want more ideas of where to eat.
Hey.
- Another day in paradise.
Another one.
- All right.
See what I mean?
That just happened at the right time.
It's just one big community here.
Everyone just seems to be a part of a family here,
and it's damn hot, so I can't emphasise that enough.
Hydration, hydration, hydration.
You can do private classes here.
I've done a couple private classes here last year.
I've done few here this year.
My girlfriend's done some both last year and this year,
separate videos, 700 Baht per session.
In my opinion, it's absolutely worth it.
Pretty much all the gyms here charge around the same amount
for a private Muay Thai session, about 700 Baht,
but it's worth it.
Kru Charn, absolutely amazing.
Anyway, if you have any questions about this training camp,
let me know.
I'll do my best.
I'm not a pro fighter.
I'm not a professional.
I love sharing the fitness journey.
I love helping people make decisions about training camps,
fitness, travel, adventures, that kind of stuff.
They're not paying me for this.
I just do this because this particular place,
maybe four questions in the last week
about Dragon Muay Thai specifically, and I could just say,
guys, just go and contact Dragon directly.
They'll help you.
I'm sure they will, but it's just easy for me
to shoot a 15-minute video to give you a walking tour
of the reception area where you can buy all your gear
if you want.
There are plenty of places around here
you can buy your gear from.
Without doing another comparison video,
you're gonna have to make the decisions on what's cheaper,
what's more expensive, but just to let you know,
you can buy your wraps, your gloves, your shin guards,
mouth guards, all of that, you can buy it
from Dragon Muay Thai.
One second, one second.
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Anyway, I'm gonna finish with showing you this, real quick.
So this is the area where you'll be walking into
the reception part of the gym,
and you can buy all of your gear,
so shorts, tops, tank tops, wraps, gloves, shin guards,
skipping ropes, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
so that's it, but I wanna end with this,
by saying that you can get custom-made Muay Thai shorts
with your name on it.
If you saw that video last year, I went to another place
along Fitness Street, where I had my name
custom embroidered over the Muay Thai short,
so my name was custom embroidered over here.
This place does it.
They do it.
I asked reception.
It takes about two to three weeks for them to send it off
to get it custom made, and it costs about 1,500 Baht,
so keep that in mind.
If you're coming here for a month, or two months,
or three months, make sure the beginning of your trip,
you organise this with the reception here,
and just say you want your name custom in Thai script
like this with your name, and they'll do it for you.
I just checked them and they'll do it for you.
Fifteen-hundred Baht.
It takes them two to three weeks.
Guys, amazing paradise.
Sorry to ramble, but this is it.
This is Thailand.
This is Fitness Street.
I can't wait to have you guys here.
Maybe if I'm here at the same time,
we can meet up somewhere.
Yeah, anyway, thanks for watching,
and have an amazing, amazing day.
Bye.
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